Creative Commons and Open Textbooks
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Second point:
●65% of students choose not to buy a college textbook because
it’s too expensive
●94% report that they suffer academically because of this
choice
●48% say they altered which classes they took based on
textbook costs, either taking fewer classes or different classes
(Source: “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market.” U.S. PIRG
Education Fund and the Student PIRGs)
Fifth point:New Zealand tutors and lecturers produce a heap of educational resources, which they generally don’t share
Develop, share and adopt Open Educational Resources
→ free of legal, technical and price restrictions
creativecommons.org.nz
nzcommons.org.nz
@cc_aotearoa
groups.creativecommons.org.nz